What's the right answer?
I've had an opportunity lately to discuss Brocade's VCS technologies with a lot of people. When we get to the part where we talk about products and I show them the VDX product family slide, they...
View ArticleShhhhhh! There's a fabric in there!
Back in the very early days of Storage Area Networks, we almost had to hide the fact that Fibre Channel fabrics were in use. I can remember certain integrated solutions where customers would tell me...
View ArticlePorts is Ports!
As people look at Ethernet switches, they often ask if a particular family of devices can be stacked. If so, then they follow-up by asking how many stacking ports are available, and what the stacking...
View ArticleMLXe
Although the MLXe is not a new switch, it seems to be part of the VCS core architecture. I have a few questions: How does the “patch panel” ToR solution compare to Cisco’s 5000/2000 solution – or...
View ArticleThe Path Not Taken (Sorry, Bob!)
This week I had an interesting discussion with someone who was asking how a VDX switch will route traffic. Given that we have a number of equal cost paths through a VCS fabric from Point A to Point B,...
View ArticleVDX and DCB
Dr. Chip: Question: Are the VDX switches DCB-capable? If not, why the heck not!?!? Seems like a big thing to be missing for the switch of the future.... Thanks
View ArticleQuestions About the VDX
A few questions regarding the VDX switches: 1.) Do the VDX switches support multiple FLOGIs on a single port? 2.) Can you connect a blade chassis with a FEX-type of IO module that will aggregate...
View ArticleHave a Client Issue
What would be the definition of a "hop" in an FCoE environmrnt? To me, to qualify as a hop, the device that is passing FCoE traffic must be acting on a level higher than OSI 1, meaning higher than...
View ArticleVDX and VM Awareness
It is said that the VDX is VM-aware. Can someone elaborate on that? I know that with AMPP, port profiles can be migrated along with the VM, but how does the VDX switch know of the VM? Does that mean...
View ArticleVDX 6720 switch: rate-limiting / policing
Hellow! Are there any means with this switch to configure rate-limiting / policing for interfaces/vlans ? Like cisco has mls qos vlan-based rate-limiting features and aggregated policers, that...
View ArticleVDX VLAN ERROR
I am not able to configure the switch port on a vdx to became a member of VLAN. please let me know how to enable the port as member of vlan when i try the following command. i am getting error as...
View ArticleHow do I view the hardware type via CLI?
I tried the usual suspect CLI commands to see what the model numbers were of the stack and I came up empty. show chassis- serial, part#, uptime, fan and PS status show version-NOS version details...
View ArticleRgarding multicast routing in layer 3 switch
I am using FCX648S l3 switch . i have few question 1 ) IN layer 3 ,if multicast routing is enable on global mode. IGMP is enable by default ? 2) what is the diffrance between IGMP V1 and IGMP V2 ?...
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